“I had to look at him lying in the casket. And because of Joe, it wasn’t the face I kissed goodbye days prior," Irvine's girlfriend, Christina King, said during the victim impact statements in court Wednesday. "It was reconstruction and makeup, damaged to the point where friends and family couldn’t properly say goodbye.”

Prosecutors said Mylniec shot Irvine four times after Irvine threatened to go forward about Mylniec’s “double life,” including allegations of sexual abuse.

“When a person becomes a police officer, they take an oath to serve and protect the community as positive role models,” King said, reading from a letter.

In court, Mylniec apologized to the victim’s family, but they did not appear receptive to his words.